AMD has been divesting itself from Global Foundries over the past few years and today announced that it has aquired the remaining shares of the company from AMD (approximately 14% of the company). Global Foundries is now completely independent of AMD, and AMD is now a regular partner/customer of GF's.

I'm not completely sure but wouldn't the x86 licence just cover creation and ownership, not manufacture? Like TSMC makes chips for a number of clients but they don't own any of the chips so they don't have to pay licence fees to ARM or anyone else, only their clients do. Reply

Intel and AMD settled that dispute in late 2009, Intel is now fine with AMD going fabless. They reached this agreement during the same meeting where Intel gave 1.25 billion dollars to AMD so AMD would drop their civil suit against Intel due to Intel business practices with the OEMs during the early 2000s.